An award-winning poet and playwright, educator and editor, Kobus Moolman teaches creative writing in the Department of English at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban. He is regarded as one of South Africa’s leading lyrical poets.

He is the author of 3 solo collections of poetry, Time like Stone (2000), Feet of the Sky (2003), and Separating the Seas (2007), as well as a joint collection, 5 Poetry (2001), with 4 other South African poets. His debut collection, Time like Stone, was awarded the prestigious Ingrid Jonker Prize for 2001.

He was the founding editor of the annual KwaZulu-Natal poetry journal, Fidelities, which ran from 1995 until 2007. In 2003 he was a finalist in the BBC African Performance radio drama competition. His winning play, Soldier Boy, was produced for the BBC World Service.

In 2008 he produced an illustrated, limited edition collection entitled Anatomy. This collection was later published in the Journal of Disability Studies (Ohio State University). It won the Dramatic and Literary Rights Organization Prize for the best poem to appear in New Coin magazine in 2008.

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